Fingerprints of the Gods Test | Final Test - Hard

Graham Hancock
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Fingerprints of the Gods Test | Final Test - Hard

Graham Hancock
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a second element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?

2. What is the only other pyramid in the world, besides the Great Pyramid, to use a variant on pi?

3. In Chapter 38, how did Hancock observe the Great Pyramid?

4. What is one element of the author's thesis in Chapter 52?

5. What is the term for the gravity of the sun and planets exerting influence on the Earth's elliptic orbit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?

2. How did Hancock resolve the absence of any lost continent in Chapter 50?

3. Is it a coincidence that the Great Pyramid is an accurate scale-model of Earth's northern hemisphere?

4. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

5. What two aspects of the Great Pyramid remain a mystery?

6. Explain why seasons occur in different hemispheres.

7. What did the author mean in Chapter 33 when he referred to the boats at the base of the Great Pyramid as seeming to be of a quality exceeding the presumed need to transport a dead king to heaven?

8. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?

9. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?

10. As theorized in Chapter 28, do ancient myth contains a veiled method for expressing the technical terms for advanced astronomy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the Giza necropolis in Chapter 49 referred to as "a machine that stimulates questions"? How did the author test this theory?

Essay Topic 2

What did Hancock learn about the Nazca people and their beliefs and values, based on the permanent drawings in the desert they left behind for posterity?

Essay Topic 3

What was Hancock's belief about the meaning ascribed to ancient myths and legends?

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